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From: farber@pcpond.cis.upenn.edu. (David J. Farber)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Please not yet again
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Date: 10 Jun 90 18:35:53 GMT
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While I know it will not help to stop the religious wars, please take a peek at
the report produced by the Board on telecommunications and Computer
Applications of the National Research Council dated 1985 (work started
in 1983) titled:

Transport Protocols for the DOD Data Networks -- report to the DoD and the NBS

it compared TP/4 and TCP.

Dave



David Farber; Prof. of CIS and EE, U of Penn, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6389 Tele:
215-898-9508(off); 215-274-8292 (home); FAX: 215-274-8293;  Cellular:  302-740-
1198 "The fundamental principle of science, the definition almost, is this: the
sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment." -- R. P. Feynman